"Precognition"

BOOM—!!

The next moment, a nearly transparent pulse wave, impossible to describe accurately with any color, suddenly erupted from the frozen point of light at the center of the ring, shooting outward in every direction except along the plane of the ring itself!

This pulse wave was not merely an energy beam. It was more like "information" or a "state" advancing faster than light and rewriting the laws of physics.

It moved so quickly that, before it truly erupted, a causal paradox occurred—the emergence of an "omen," or a "fore-echo."

On Proxima b, an Earth-like planet located within the habitable zone, if there had been observers, they would have discovered in terror that the star in the sky and the stars in the background had suddenly flickered in unison without warning, becoming extraordinarily bright, as though the entire universe had been illuminated by an invisible flash.

The mountains, land, clouds, and even their own bodies took on a bizarre, nearly transparent texture in that instant, as if reality itself had briefly been "negated" or "overwritten."

The anomaly vanished in an instant, so quickly that one might have doubted it had been an illusion.

This was precisely the fore-echo effect created by the immense disruption to the spacetime continuum caused by the incoming faster-than-light pulse wave.

It defied conventional causality, allowing the "result"—the image of the pulse wave sweeping past—to arrive before the "cause," the pulse wave's emission reached its target.

Immediately afterward, the true body of the pulse wave swept in with unstoppable force.

When it passed over Proxima b, there was no explosion or impact. The planet itself remained completely intact.

Yet any lifeform on the surface, within the planet, or in orbit whose life signal matched the preset Marker Moon characteristic spectrum was silently "erased" in an instant.